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OCR: 9.22 DATA SECU RITY AND CONTRO Encry pt Da ta there any way to prevent criminals from using stolen data? When an unauthorized person reads data, the dee IS no longer confidential. Although password protection and physical I security measures are taken to limit access to computer data hackers and criminals still manage to access data InfoWeb Encryption is the process scrambling 0r hiding information so it cannot be under: stood until decrypted, or deciphered to change back to its original form. Encryption pro- vides line of defense against the un authorized use of data data encrypted, unauthorized users obtain scrambled gibberish instead meaningful information Encryption Allan Poe the American writer famous for his tales of horror was quite interested secret codes was convinced that was imp ...